Quotes About Autopsies

Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.

Sam and I go way back to when he was a young coroner starting out and used to perform autopsies at weddings an sweet sixteens for cigarette money.

They determined that the death count based solely on the medical autopsies had underestimated the damage. Between 14 and 20 July, 739 more Chicago residents died than in a typical week for that month. In fact, public health scholars have established that the proportional death toll from the heat wave in Chicago has no equal in the record of U.S. heat disasters.

moribund patients, conducting autopsies on them all and EEGs on some.

I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

Por qué no tendemos al hombre sin ideales sobre nuestra mesa de autopsias, hasta saber qué es, cómo es, qué hace, qué piensa, para qué sirve?

No, I love watching autopsies of disgusting mutant monsters

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

believe that at least twenty percent of autopsies nationwide reveal that the initial theory of the cause of death is wrong.

There may be no such thing as dying from old age. From a study of more than forty-two thousand consecutive autopsies, centenarians—those who live past one hundred—were found to have succumbed to diseases in 100 percent of the cases examined.